Capellini wrote:I'm finding the third book to be hella tedious. Could anything less interesting than those goddamn mulefas and that pain in the ass doctor be contrived? I don't think so.

I think the whole trilogy peaked in the first book and has been sliding down hill since then.

I think differently.

The mulefa were one of my favourite parts of the book. I was extremely annoyed every time Lyra's story was interupted to talk about Mary, don't get me wrong, but the mulefa's world provided a contrast to the dark and scary world of Christianity.

They existed, apparently untouched by the "evil" of the Church, and they are a prime example of how things should work, without the negative effects of Christianity(in the novel).

The thin line between genius and insanity is less of a border than a union.

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."--Pope John Paul II

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-Albert Einstein

I hope you're on the recieving end of an improbability equation wherein something happens to you that's as unlikely as Rob Schneider winning a best actor Oscar on the same day Michael Jackson single handedly captures Osama Bin Laden. ~ Rainswept

O.K. Everything else is just stuff you do while you are waiting to have sex. Sin. WoE. ~ Warlord of Elephants

The thin line between genius and insanity is less of a border than a union.

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."--Pope John Paul II

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-Albert Einstein

The thin line between genius and insanity is less of a border than a union.

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."--Pope John Paul II

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-Albert Einstein

Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the Earthsea Trilogy all kick these books collective asses.

I deny Harry Potter

Earthsea however, is great.

But Potter? Argh

Harry Potter is a good introduction to reading for those who would normally not read. Simplistic, yes, but you wouldn't want to start a kid off on reading War and Peace, or something to that effect.

heh...If I hadn't started reading Harry Potter when I was younger, my life could be significantly different.

That book opened the whole world to me.

I think it did for me too... I can't remember.

I think I was reading quite avidly before that.

And I think regardless of your age, the last 4 are an excellent story. The first 3 are necessary to get the entire scope and experience, but I felt that while the first 3 were essentially stand-alone novels for kids and adolescents, the last 4 formed a single story fully appropriate for adult readers.

True terror lies in the futility of human existence.

Malcolm Reynolds is my co-pilot.

"The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." - John Stuart Mill

Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the Earthsea Trilogy all kick these books collective asses.

I deny Harry Potter

Earthsea however, is great.

But Potter? Argh

Harry Potter is a good introduction to reading for those who would normally not read. Simplistic, yes, but you wouldn't want to start a kid off on reading War and Peace, or something to that effect.

heh...If I hadn't started reading Harry Potter when I was younger, my life could be significantly different.

That book opened the whole world to me.

I think it did for me too... I can't remember.

I think I was reading quite avidly before that.

And I think regardless of your age, the last 4 are an excellent story. The first 3 are necessary to get the entire scope and experience, but I felt that while the first 3 were essentially stand-alone novels for kids and adolescents, the last 4 formed a single story fully appropriate for adult readers.

Capellini wrote:And I think regardless of your age, the last 4 are an excellent story. The first 3 are necessary to get the entire scope and experience, but I felt that while the first 3 were essentially stand-alone novels for kids and adolescents, the last 4 formed a single story fully appropriate for adult readers.

Yeah, I couldn't have put it better myself.

A flap of the wings yesterday means big changes tomorrow.Let's work together to keep the present inevitable.

7 was as little of a disappointment as you'd think possible, considering the hoopla.

I hope you're on the recieving end of an improbability equation wherein something happens to you that's as unlikely as Rob Schneider winning a best actor Oscar on the same day Michael Jackson single handedly captures Osama Bin Laden. ~ Rainswept

O.K. Everything else is just stuff you do while you are waiting to have sex. Sin. WoE. ~ Warlord of Elephants

7 was as little of a disappointment as you'd think possible, considering the hoopla.

The epilogue ticked me off to no end.

[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.-Darwin